Thanks James,

As for a timetable for when Putin invades those nations on the receiving end of Russian displeasure, only Putin knows for sure, but I'm willing to suggest a tough time-frame:

* within the next month, the Tsarists will invade all of Ukraine; as a sort of mopping-up exercise, they may also invade Moldova, a sovereign nation like Ukraine;

* within the next couple of months, Putin will find another terrorised group of Sudeten Russians in one or more of the Baltic states, pleading with him to liberate them.

* within perhaps a year, the Tsarists will be making trouble for Poland. They may have another go at Georgia too, and if they are stupid enough, Azerbaijan.

Surely one lesson we should have learnt from the First World War is that imperialists don't stop ? In a world of non-imperialists, there is no limit for them - perhaps, until they start to bump up against China's ambitions in Central Asia.

But I live in hope of uprisings across 'Russia', amongst the many republics which have felt the Cossack knout and lived with the Stalinist gulag.

What a despicable example of the bankruptcy of 'socialism'.

Joe

The other side of the coin:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-look-at-the-crimea-crisis-from-the-perspective-of-the-kremlin-a-960446.html.

Thanks Joe. Your timetable duly noted.. You didn't answer my second question. Too uncomfortable perhaps?

I can highly recommend an article by Israel Shamir. You can find it at www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38023htm.

You might like to copy it for rereading at the end of your proposed timetable and compare who has the better view.

James,

Your second question ? Irrelevant - two wrongs don't make a right.

And are the Yanks still in Iraq ? Will Putin ever leave the Crimea ?

I rest my case.

Joe
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Hi James,

I don't think Putin will invade through eastern Ukraine. His blitzkrieg will be right across the south, through Odessa, to Moldova and "Transniestria", with a pincer movement from the north to Kiev and Lvov. This will cut Ukraine off entirely from the sea, and from the rest of Europe.

Then he can engineer an 'Incident' with Lithuania, perhaps some shocking attack on peaceful Russian-speakers there or some sort of border 'Incident' between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad enclave.

Something like that. $ 100 says he'll do the first by the end of April and, if the international 'community' is feeble enough, the second by, say, the end of June.

Then Poland, maybe by the end of their summer. Wanna bet ?

I'm watching to see which way Kazakhstan goes. If its government buckles, Putin has open slather to all those central Asian republics.

Cheers,

Joe

Joe, you have a rich and varied imagination. Unfortunately you appear to have fallen victim to the neo-con view of the world busily perpetrated by the US and Uk governments and their media mouthpieces.

You might like tho listen to a very interesting interview with Paul Craig Roberts which you can access either via his website or an English website www.snippets-and-slappits.blogspot.ca it is true kind of frank and informed talking you almost never hear on the Oz media (or read for that matter). All the more valuable because Roberts has impeccable conservative credentials (ex Reagan administration assistant Treasury Secretary; Wall St Journal et al.)

I am not a betting man, but if you are right I will make a donation to a worthy cause. I trust you will do the same if you are wrong.

James